The Sunday Times announced in an article in its latest edition that it has issued legal papers against Armstrong.

'It is clear that the proceedings were baseless and fraudulent,' the paper said in a letter to Armstrong's lawyers.

'Your representations that you had never taken performance enhancing drugs were deliberately false.'

The paper, which is owned by Rupert
Murdoch's News Corp., said its total claim against Armstrong is 'likely
to exceed' £1million pounds ($1.6 million).

This year Armstrong was banned for life and stripped of all results
since August 1998, including his seven successive Tour wins when the U.S.
Anti-Doping Agency released a massive report detailing allegations of
widespread doping by Armstrong and his teams.

The
document ordered 14 years of his career results erased - including
the Tour titles. It contained sworn statements from 26 witnesses,
including 11 former teammates.

The Sunday Times, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., said its total claim against Armstrong is 'likely to exceed' £1million pounds

THE ARMSTRONG ALLEGATIONS

2011May - Forced to deny claims made by former team-mate Tyler Hamilton that they took performance-enhancing drugs together.

2012February - An investigation into alleged doping by Armstrong is dropped by federal prosecutors.

June - United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) confirm they will file formal doping charges.

July - Armstrong files lawsuit against USADA accusing them of 'corrupt inducements' to other cyclists to testify against him.

August 20 - Armstrong's legal action dismissed.

August 24 - Armstrong announces he will not fight doping charges filed against him.

October 10 - USADA claim 11 of Armstrong's former team-mates have testified against him.

October 18 - Six companies cancel their sponsorship deals with Armstrong

October 22 - Cycling's world governing body, the UCI confirms it has ratified USADA's decision to ban Armstrong from cycling for life and to strip him of his seven Tour de France titles for doping offences.

October 26 - The UCI confirms Armstrong's Tour titles will not be awarded to other riders.

December - Sunday Times demands more than £1million from Lance Armstrong after they lost a libel action to him in 2006 for printing doping claims.

The 41-year-old Armstrong, who overcame life-threatening testicular
cancer, retired from cycling a year ago.

He announced in August that he
would no longer fight the doping allegations that have dogged him for
years.

In October he was ordered to pay back all the cycling prize money he won while using performance-enhancing drugs.